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our fashionable wine-drinking citizens, "come, let us reason together."

To you, gentlemen, we must address our appeal; for we recognize no other opponents in the field. The unreformed inebriate, the rum manufacturer, the rumseller and importer,are mere supernumaries in your camp; they wear no arms; they are under your protection; and subsist on your example and support-we are your fellow-citizens.In many of the duties and avocations of life, we walk side by side; in many of the interests of our community, we take sweet counsel together. We can testify the integ

the ship-wrecked mariner has clung to his frail plank through all the wilderness of the wintry waves, and when in sight of the haven of rest, will you hang out false beacons to lure him on to the breakers, whence his mangled corpse shall be dashed on the shore? When, with a desperate effort he has caught hold of the ark of safety, will you strike off his hand and leave him to sink in the waves?

INTELLECT-LABOR.

ARE labor and self-culture irreconcilable

rity of your honor, to the respectability of to each other? In the first place we have your standing, the cordiality of your friend-seen that a man in the midst of labor, may ship,and the munificence of your philanthro- and ought to give himself to the most im py. And we appeal to these brilliant qualities of the heart, when we say, that there are thousands of unfortunate beings who are trying in vain to reform on your principle.

At the corner of the streets you may meet scores of poor inebriates who have tried to become temperate men by followng your example; but it has plunged them deeper in the wine. The side-walks are daily througed with those who are trying to arise from habitual intoxication to the moderate use of the intoxicating cup. Alas! it is your example that is hanging out this tantalizing phantom! Will you cheat their souls with these insidious delusions, that they may again be moderate drinkers? Will you bind, with wanton hands another stone to the willing neck of a Sisyphus, to drag him back into the fiery abyss, at each successive attempt to rise from its torments? Will you torment a Tantalus with visions of the cooling waters of life, with which he may never slake his burning lips? Shall that father who has almost strength enough To face the tempter-shall that husband who has just recommenced an existence of life and love-shall that son and brother who have just been rescued from the lee-shore of intemperance-shall they be dashed back into their original ruin by a glance at the wine that sparkles on your tables? When

portant improvements, that he may cultivate his sense of justice, his benevolence, and the desire of perfection. Toil is the school of these high principles; and we have a strong presumption that, in other respects, it does not necessarily blight the soul. Next, we have seen that the most fruitful sources of truth and wisdom are not books, precious as they are, but experience and observation; and these belong to all conditions. It is another important consideration, that almost all labor demands intellectual activity, and is best carried on by those who invigorate their minds; so that the two interests, labor and self-culture, are friends to each other.

It is mind, after all, which does the work in the world; so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished. A man, in proportion as he is intelligent, makes a given force accomplish a greater task, makes skill take the place of muscles, and with less labor gives a better product.

Make men intelligent, and they become inventive; they find a shorter process.— Their knowledge of nature helps them to turn its laws to account, and to understand the substance on which they work, and quickly seize on useful hints, which experience continually furnishes. It is among workmen some of the most useful machines have been contrived. Spread education, and as the history of this and other countrics

show, there will be no bounds to useful in- finished, to accommodate 50,000 volumes.— vention.

TRIP TO RICHMOND.

We do not mean that city in Old Virginia where the nobles of that old, time-honored State do congregate to guard her sacred interests. But our trip was up in the upper tier of towns in Old Macomb, Michigan, where the sons of New England have congregated to subdue the forests and to cultivate the virgin soil, which, here if any where on this wide earth, will largely compensate the tillers toil. If there is aught that would move us to forsake the pleasant but toilsome life of an Editor, it is the field and forest where nature is exhibited in beauty and

reason for very strong apprehension of the downfall of our institutions. Integrity and intelligence going hand in hand must continue invincible. Such seems to be the fact even in the newest portions of this great country. We have not space for more this month. More anon.

EDITORIAL COURTESY.

We find in the last number of that excellent religious paper the Pittsburg Christian Advocate, an article which appeared in our last issue, from the pen of Rev. R. R. Kellog, entitled the Sabbath of our freedom.— We are glad to acknowledge the courtesy of the able Editor in giving due credit to our work for the article. We do

this more readily because this treatment is so different from what we have received at the hand of some other caterers for the lit

our exchanges, three articles, in one issue taken from the Miscellany without credit. The article above refurred to, we have al

nal. We are very glad if we can gather up anything that will be useful to the world and help in forming right principles among men, and we are not sorry when an able paper recognises the propriety of our course and the correctness of our judgement by copying our articles, but it affords us additional pleasures when the courtesies of Editorial life are practised towards us by our brethren of the quill, and our unpretending magazine is

where God is revealed in the wonders of his hand. Richmond is settled principally by the hardy sons of our glorious New England as before intimated; who, finding that their own country was becoming too strait for them, relinquished the sweets of society and forsook the scene of many hallowed associa-teray public. We have noticed in one of tions in the land of the Pilgrims, and came to this Western forest to make themselves a home and a sanctuary. There is one very prominent feature of their fatherland, exhi-ready seen in one exchange claimed as origibited wherever they find a home. The schoolhouse is reared in every neighborhood and provisions made for educating their children, preparing them thus to bear their part in the history of their country, which is yet future. So long as this principle is in the ascendant there can be no serious ground for fear with regard to the future destiny of our country. Especially as we find that the house of God stands in proximity to the school house; or when the poverty of the people or the fact of their too recent settlement forbids the hope of seeing erected at once the temple of prayer-the school house goes up, and is used through the week as a place of instruction for young republicans and on the Sabbath becomes a nursery of piety, affording a convenient place for the assembly of the children to receive religious Send your orders. Please all speak at once. instruction, and a place of worship where Meyer's Universain is still excellent; but the people congregate to listen to the words we do not receive it from the Publishers of "this life." While learning is generally Why is this? We cant afford to do without disseminated and the means of sanctifying it it. Having complied with terms, it must provided and appreciated, there can be no come.

credited for its articles.

We still receive those excellent Monthlies the Student and the Schoolmate, published in New York at One Dollar a year. Three dollars directed to the Editor of the Miscel lany will secure for one year the two above named works and the Miscellany and Ohio Cadet.

Individuals which we call societies. By consulting the page of history we find that society in its infancy is very different from society in its manhood. Men seem to have herded together, in the early ages, by a sort of instinct, for mutual protection and comfort. Their physical wants soon became fewer than the means of supply. Hence moments of leisure were found, which, by the natural contact of mind with mind, were by degrees devoted to mental improvement. Civilization, as a necessary consequence, followed, and kept pace with the progress of mental cultivation, and daily originated new wants, not solely of a physical, but principally of an intellectual nature. Science and art followed in the track of civilization to supply these daily increasing wants.

THE law of the universe is progression. obedience to it everything moves on, either in an increasing or decreasing series. The solid granite gradually crumbles into dust. The tall oak of the forest is first a tender shoot, then a green sapling, till at last, under the genial influence of warmth and moisture, it becomes stately in its maturity; and if permitted to remain unmolested, it as gradually decays, to afford nourishment to others. So the human body is first seen in all the helplessness of infancy, then in the freshness and beauty of youth, then in the full strength of manhood; till old age steals on apace, impairing its beauty, wasting its freshness, and destroying its strength till in the grave, man's second cradle, it turns again to dust. Memory, imagination, judgment, and reason have also their infancy and youth, and, if properly cultivated, reach not only a definite point of perfection, but progress in strength so long as man can witness their manifestations through the unimpaired bodily organs. And when the spirit leaves the body, if disciplined in virtue, it progresses in knowledge to all eternity. The Word of God assures us this same law exists in the moral, as in the mineral, vegetable, animal, and intellectual world.

The nature of Society is such, and its unlimited improvement being so entirely dependant upon the cultivation of our intellectual and moral powers, our duty is plain. The present generation is bound to transmit to unborn millions the rich blessings which it now enjoys. Especially obligatory is it upon the younger members of the community to labor assiduously in the cultivation of their minds. Our fathers are rapidly passing away, and we must soon fill their In all ages of the world the same law has places. We must bear the burdens, disbeen manifest in those combinations of in-charge the duties, and share the responsibili

ties, as well as enjoy the blessings of society.quicksands. This is that "round-about We must be the pillars on which the super-common sense," for the destitution of which structure must rest, and intelligence and virtue alone can mould and fashion us for our respective places. Peculiarly applicable are these remarks to those who are engaged in Sabbath School instruction. From the station which they occupy in society and from the nature of the work committed unto them the duty of mental cultivation assumes an importance hitherto unnoticed. And when I reflect upon it, and consider its inseparable connection with the welfare of our country and the prosperity of our Zion, I indulge often, in momentary grief that our old and able writers do not more frequently lay this subject before the world.

nothing can atone, and the loss of which nothing can repair. It is judgment alone that can teach us how to avail ourselves of the knowledge which we have acquired. We behold its exercise in every man who discharges with success the duties of life. The Sabbath school teacher manifests it in the government and instruction of the children committed to his care. The artful politician exhibits a specimen of judgment disciplined in the ranks of party. In every popular speaker, also we may behold the exercise of a well-trained judgment in the arrangement of his discourse, in the skilful management of his own feelings, and those of his audience, and in his taking advantage of the very moment or circumstance best adapted to make them accord with him in his views

The young constitute the flower of the church, and as such they are beheld by the world. How desirable then, that they present to its view one deep, glorious phalanx, and feelings. That the reasoning powers adorned with intellect and virtue. Second should be duly cultivated appears evident to the ministers of the gospel alone in rank, from the fact that no one can maintain a they are second to them only in influence permanent influence over men without their and responsibility. To Sabbath school exercise. He should be able to convince teachers are committed the children of the them that his understanding has been suffichurch, to train for elevated stations in so-ciently cultivated to enable him to discover ciety, and for the holiest office in the sanctuary. The Bible is their text book, they are to explain its laws, enforce its precepts, unfold its beauties, and recommend its love. The whole world is their field of illustration. To fit them for their calling, they need minds disciplined in the school of the prophets, hearts daily imbibing wisdom at the cross of Christ.

Without soliciting the readers attention, further to this general view of the subject let me now direct his thoughts.

and expose the errors as well as the fallacies of his opponents and that he is able to stand erect upon the field of argument. Unless he can do this he can have no confidence in himself, and no expectation of usefulness. An age of intensity and debate will discover his defects. He will be unable to command attention, and will be compelled to leave the field without even covering his retreat.

2. The power of analysis is, likewise a necessary requisite. By this I mean the faculty of perceiving and exhibiting the main 1. To an enlightened understanding which principles upon which every science and is indispensibly necessary. So obvious is this every system depends. By analysis every requisition that it scarcely seems necessary disguise and ornament is stripped off, and the to dwell upon it. Whatever other qualifica- naked thought displayed; a process analotions we may possess, if we are destitute of gous to that which a skilful anatomist uses this we shall be unable to effect any great in obtaining a good skeleton. The habit of and permanent good in any station in so-analysis is necessary to assist us in our menciety. Without this we shall move along tal operations, and to enable us fully to ex

like a vessel with every sail set, and every pennon flying in the breeze, but with no rudder by which to steer clear of rocks and

amine any subject. It is of great service also in reading. This power is an indispensable qualification for a teacher. The